My soul is sorrowful even unto death

Saint Mark - Chapter 14

My soul is sorrowful even unto death. J-J Tissot

[32] Et veniunt in praedium, cui nomen Gethsemani. Et ait discipulis suis : Sedete hic donec orem.
And they came to a farm called Gethsemani. And he saith to his disciples: Sit you here, while I pray.

[33] Et assumit Petrum, et Jacobum, et Joannem secum : et coepit pavere et taedere.
And he taketh Peter and James and John with him; and he began to fear and to be heavy.


[34] Et ait illis : Tristis est anima mea usque ad mortem : sustinete hic, et vigilate.
And he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death; stay you here, and watch.

From The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by J-J Tissot (1897)

We have just explained that the Garden of Gethsemane is situated in the lower part of the valley, where begin the slopes of the Mount of Olives.  Near to it are certain caves which have been converted into family tombs, some of which, as yet unoccupied, afford places of retirement for solitary prayer and meditation.  After having entered the Garden with Jesus, the Apostles divided into two groups; three of them following the Master at a little distance, the rest dispersing about the mountain slopes so as to watch from a somewhat higher position the approaches to the Garden.  From thence, in fact, they could look down upon the various paths leading up to the Temple and no one could pass along them unnoticed.  The three chosen companions of Jesus: Peter, James and John, accompanied Him in the direction of the cave to which He proposed retiring, and, having reached a rock with a level surface about a stone's cast from it and a little above the path by way of which Judas and the soldiers led by him would presently appear, they halted in obedience to the command of the Saviour, whilst He Himself went slowly forward, His sold exceeding sorrowful unto death, to wrestle alone with the temptation assailing Him.

Totus tuus ego sum 

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam